Bug#780359: Options w.r.t. libcgal11 transition

[Johannes Ring]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Joachim Reichel
<joachim.reichel at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> dolfin is now the only reverse dependency holding up the libcgal11 transition.
>
> What are the options?
> (1) Fix dolfin without causing another transition
> (2) Remove dolfin from testing
> (3) Upload 1.5.0-1 from experimental to unstable

This will be the correct solution IMO. I will do that now.

Johannes

> (4) ...?
>
> (1) I don't know the details but it seems to me that this is not easy.
>
> (3) This causes another transition, but the only reverse dependencies of the
> binary packages of dolfin are python-viper (plus the meta packages fenics,
> science-mathematics and science-mathematics-dev). Rebuilding python-viper
> against dolfin 1.5.0-1 worked without problems. Maybe this additional transition
> isn't that bad (apart from the delay)?
>
> BTW does anyone understand why dolfin does not appear in the list of
> autoremovals? The bug is release-critical and not fixed in unstable/testing,
> only experimental.
>
> Joachim
>
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